Tonight down in Jamaica
On the other side of Queens
It’s another cruise night
Bobby’s passin’ by, with his girl by his side
He won’t be Amblin’ tonight

He looks back, to ‘back in the day’
When he wore his Red Rambler jacket
No one would dare get in his way...

 

By the time the 1980's were in full swing, we were rollin in it.  That's right.  Trickle down theory was kickin' ass all over the place.  It was easy to buy into that, hook, line, and sinker.  Especially after the malaise of the 1970's.  Everyone I knew was driving new trucks.  The sun was shining, and we were making hay.  The Japanese in the meantime, were about to wipe the American Harley Davidson Motor Company right off the map, while nobody was looking.  The free traders got stopped dead in their tracks by that one.  A huge tariff imposed on imported motorcycles saved the MoCo, right in the nick of time.  How'd that happen?